After Gion finished cooking, she carried the dishes to the dining room and said with a smile, "Julian, wash your hands and try my cooking." Little Tenoch also smiled and said, "Mom's cooking is delicious. It's really amazing!" Julian looked at the six dishes on the table: braised beef, delicious chicken drumsticks, charcoal-grilled octopus, steak, corn and pork rib soup, and fried squid balls.
Julian smiled and said, "What a lavish spread. I love it." Gion brought out several enormous bowls of braised noodles and said with a smile, "Please, have a taste!" Julian saw Tenoch already wolfing down his food and said, "Gion, you really are a chef!"
Gion recalled the first time she had gone undercover in the Flame Dragon Pirates and said with a smile, "That was the first time I ever cooked. I studied afterward, once I came back." Old memories surfaced in Julian's mind. He chuckled and said, "Back then, I thought you had poisoned the food, that you wanted to poison me to death and inherit my Flame Dragon Pirates." Gion smiled as well. "It was my first time! And you forced me to finish all of it."
Julian chuckled and said, "Things in this world are just that coincidental. There's no story without coincidence!" Gion recalled it as well, smiling as she said, "You really can be awful sometimes, snatching things everywhere and stealing from the warehouses of World Government member nations."
Julian smiled and said, "Last time, when I attended the meeting in the Holy Land, I returned all those things at double the price. The Flame Dragon Kingdom's commerce has taken off. The average annual income has reached around one hundred thousand Berries, much higher than that of ordinary Marine soldiers."
Gion smiled and said, "Julian, you're incredible. On the Sea,